If you have an amount of body fat which you are not happy with and would love to replace it with some solid, strong and shapely muscle, I will show you how easily you can do this. What I can’t tell you how to do is how to turn fat into muscle — and nobody can, because it’s an impossible feat. Let me explain why…
Fat and muscle are two completely different difference substances. And they do not interrelate in such a way that you can use the stored fat (energy) to fuel the growth of muscle mass. The body purposely does not work like this because it prefers to hold on to fat stores rather than muscle stores for survival purposes.
You can also not burn fat at the same time as building muscle mass. This is because you need to take in excess calories to build muscle, and you need a calorie deficit to lose fat. Not even a magician would be capable of such trickery!
What you must do then, is work on either losing fat first, or building muscle first. Which is up to you. I would recommend that, if you have an amount of body fat that you are not happy with, you should lose the fat first and then work on building muscle. I would do it in this order because during the time period you are building muscle and taking in excess calories, you only stand to put on a little extra fat, because the calories the muscles don’t use (excess) will be stored as fat.
Like I’ve said plenty of times before though — a few pounds of extra fat is nothing to worry about. It’s when you pile stones of fat on that you’ve got one big uphill struggle to lose it.
And that is how to turn fat into muscle — the real and possible way!